Sentence examples for easterly route from inspiring English sources

A few days later, the easterly route the local officials favored was chosen.

Finally, the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was known to have pressed southward along the coast of West Africa, beyond São Jorge da Mina, in an effort to find an easterly route to Cathay and India by sea.

This easterly route (see map), which is more than 1,100 kilometres (700 miles) long, was partly intended to help satisfy Tianjin's thirst, but its construction has suffered years of delays.The project will initially provide water to the provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui.

This easterly route is longer than that to the Pacific, but avoids the Rockies.

The trunkline follows three overall segments: a southeasterly track from South Haven to Kalamazoo, a northeasterly course to the Hastings area and an easterly route through the Lansing area.

Birds from central Europe initially migrate to the southwest, reorientating to the south or southeast once in Africa, although Scandinavian migrants may head south through the Alps and across the Mediterranean Sea. S. b. woodwardi reaches Africa by a more easterly route, many birds passing through the Arabian Peninsula.

NM 4--Took the easterly routes here in both directions.

The California Highway Commission considered several easterly routes between Saugus and Gorman: Soledad Canyon (used by the Southern Pacific) had frequent washouts; Mint Canyon (used by the Midway Route) was too long and cost too much; Bouquet Canyon (used by both automobile routes) had bad drainage; and San Francisquito Canyon (used by the Tejon Pass Route) was steep and narrow.

It serves as an easterly alternate route of NY 15, beginning in the Livingston County town of Springwater and ending 35.19 mile to the north in the Monroe County city of Rochester.

A more easterly but circuitous route is found along that part of El Camino Real that snakes through the fringes of Rancho Santa Fe and the eastern boundaries of Del Mar.

Stagecoach lines had arrived by 1858, including the Local Stage Coach Company in 1857, and the Western Stage Company which began its easterly and westerly routes in Omaha.